Will Bauer try that in the regular season?
Will Bauer try that in the regular season?
Listened via on demand yesterday. Great show! If you have the Siriusxm app, search Bauer Hour.Originally Posted by goreds2
* Attended the 1990 and 2010 Reds Division clinchers *
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You did, but just 20 years too late.
WHEN DOES IT STOP!?!?
NebraskaRed (03-03-2020),WrongVerb (03-03-2020)
Remember how outspoken Bauer has been about pitchers increasing their spin rate by applying a foreign substance to the baseball? In his final 4 starts last year his spin rate increased significantly. Increases that he said can't happen without applying a foreign substance to the ball. Now it could be that it happened naturally but as we have seen lately, people who loudly accuse people of doing certain things are usually guilty of doing those same things.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...surprises-more
Given my 50th birthday is this year, that seems about right.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Z-Fly (03-03-2020)
First thing I had to do was look up what a "cacophony" was! LOL
Yeah, I can see how it's going to be somewhat "complicated" when it comes to enforcement on the foreign substance. Other then being caught in the act (it has happened), wouldn't one have to prove, show evidence, that it was the pitcher who put the foreign substance (pine tar) on the ball?
Pat down the pitchers before they take the mound each inning. I love a good public strip search. Or would that fall under stop and frisk? (LOL)
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Leo Durocher said he used to sharpen his belt buckle when he played SS to scuff/cut the ball and he'd give it to the pitcher to throw. So I suppose a SS or 2B could doctor the ball but then the pitchers would have to plead ignorance. It doesn't seem likely a catcher or an infielder are doctoring the balls. Those guys have to get rid of the ball quickly and throw accurately. You get a SS who has been messing around with pine tar or whatever sticky substance they use and he has some on his hands and throws to 1st and the ball breaks like crazy. I would think that's less than ideal. A few years ago it seemed pitchers would spray on sunscreen and then use that to make the grip more tacky. It works too cause a few years ago I put sunscreen on before a game and then when I grabbed my bat my hands made it sticky.
I'd like to see umpires do this to Astros players. Frisk them like Frank Drebin did in The Naked Gun.Pat down the pitchers before they take the mound each inning. I love a good public strip search. Or would that fall under stop and frisk? (LOL)I suppose they do have the power to search pitchers for illegal substances. But the other manager has to protest first and his pitchers better have clean hands - literally and figuratively - too.
I have no doubt that he might have, but I can see Bauer doing it as an experiment to prove a point. The data on that was from September starts when they were out of it, right?
Well, that's what those words mean. He was here. If they don't keep him, he will have been lost/subtracted. I headed out the door today with two shoes on my feet. If I don't return with them, I have lost them. If I do return with them, I haven't added them. ---M2
DocRed (03-04-2020)
Trevor Bauer
@BauerOutage
I’ve been publicly critical of Rob Manfred before, but I have to give him props. He said he’d meet with any players who had further questions and he was a man of his word this morning. We had a very productive meeting about a wide range of topics.
@MLB
Chip R (03-04-2020),corkedbat (03-14-2020),DocRed (03-04-2020),RED VAN HOT (03-04-2020),Revering4Blue (03-05-2020),The Operator (03-04-2020)
I know a lot of people don't like Bauer but he makes baseball and my Cincinnati Reds way more interesting.
Tim McCarver: Baseball Quotes
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.
M2 (03-05-2020),Ron Madden (03-04-2020)
Trevor Bauer continues to be an american hero.
https://elitesportsny.com/2020/03/13...irus-shutdown/
Griffey012 (03-14-2020)
Bauer is going to vlog inside player perspective on his personal youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/BauerOutage
Friday 13th perspective here on the Momentum Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMLoMQIoeHc
Lord help the player(s) who get hurt or come down sick afterwards.
WrongVerb (03-13-2020)
For anyone wondering what the situation is for players at this moment, this is a great video.
Most of the answers are what we expected, "we don't know, just waiting for more information".
Best part was them referring to him as "The Cleveland Red".
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